This year, I'm doing something different for my birthday. I'm dedicating it to the kids of St. Jude.

Help me out by not buying me a gift this year. Buy them a gift instead — the gift of another birthday.

Why St. Jude?
Since opening in 1962, treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to 80 percent. Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing and food — because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.

That's right: the best care in the world, for free, because of people like us. Now that's something worth celebrating.

Let's get this party started.

Love always, Britney"

What a wonderful idea! We just find more and more reasons to love her!

Re: The Eric – Re: reece86 – Wow so negative. Who cares who wrote the letter, shes not parading around to be an English professor anyway. This is about the sick kids, so instead of taking time to comment here, try to get a job if ur healthy enough, so that you can help others in need as well, especially at this time of year. For the record, I'm not a Britney Spears fan, but shes using her star power to do some good, while ur negativity is striking.

Re: Samy – A) I have a job. B) I didn't say anything about her letter. I'm simply saying that she is a puppet who has not expressed a genuine thought since she went cray cray and got strapped to a gurney. C) Eat me.

What makes you all so sure that this wasn't Britney's idea? And, even if it wasn't her idea, she is trying to help. If there is 1 thing that I think IS real about Britney, it's that she is a sweet girl who cares about children. There were pictures of her from this weekend at the hospital talking to all the kids.

Re: The Eric – Yeah…like she had controll over her mental illness or actions at the time what a s t u pid ignorant. For the record Britney is not the only artist in Hollywood with PR team. I think she has the weakest and worst PR team compare to other "perfect" "smart" girls in Hollywood. She shared same handwritten letter with fans just few weeks ago, she writes better than Beyonce look it up!

"My metabolism actually changed like crazy this year. I have Hashimoto's disease. It's a thyroid disease, and it's now been two years since taking the medication for it, so for the VS show I didn't want to lose any more weight, I just want to have muscles in the right place, and if my butt can get a little perkier, then that's good."